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Another Reminder that the Palestinian Authority has No Legitimacy

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is n the 7th year of his four year term. Salam Fayyad has even less legitimacy since he was never elected by anyone and his appointment to Prime Minister was never even confirmed by the Palestinian parliament, who have no legitimacy either because their last election was in 2006.

Western media outlets insist on referring to Mahmoud Abbas as the President of the Palestinian Authority, even though he's currently on the 7th year of his four year term. Ever since Hamas showed its political strength, the Palestinian Authority has avoided holding elections for fear that Hamas will win.

Abbas has no political legitimacy since his term expired in 2009. Salam Fayyad has even less legitimacy since he was never elected by anyone and his appointment to Prime Minister was never even confirmed by the Palestinian parliament, who have no legitimacy either because their last election was in 2006.

But even though the Palestinian Authority's president, prime minister and parliament have not been elected by anyone, the terrorist democracy experiment is still going on with with local councils. Hamas boycotted those elections so they should have been a snap for President-for-Life Mahmoud Abbas to win. Or not. (via Elder of Ziyon)

Palestinian election officials said Sunday that voters choosing new local councils in the West Bank rebuffed candidates from President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement in five of the 11 main towns, an apparent blow to the Palestinian leader.

Fatah had hoped to revive its flagging political legitimacy with Saturday’s municipal elections, the first voting in the Palestinian territories in more than six years. With main rival Hamas boycotting the election, Fatah counted on a strong endorsement from voters.

Instead Fatah barely broke even. If Fatah can't win local elections, it certainly can't win anything bigger. Its political institutions have no legitimacy and derive their support entirely from the backing of Western diplomats.

If the Fatah regime has no democratic legitimacy, then on what basis is it regarded as the legitimate representative of Muslims living within the West Bank and Gaza? And on what basis is Israel being asked to negotiate with it?

And finally, on what basis is any bid that it makes at the UN being taken seriously and on what basis are American tax dollars being funneled into a two state project, when the the West Bank and Gaza are already two states, one run by Hamas, one run by Fatah, and neither holding any real elections?